Kelsea just released a poetry book Feel Your Way Through, and one of the topics she addresses is her struggle with bulimia as a teenager.
"A boy named Jackson called me 'kangaroo' when I was a freshman in high school. ... He explained this new nickname because of my belly and little legs," she writes in a poem titled "Kangaroo."
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Ballerini also reveals that, while battling bulimia, she took diet pills and excessively worked out before seeking help at 18, after which she'd passed out several times.
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In an interview with People, Ballerini also said that headlines about her "baby bump" following a 2015 Today performance briefly brought her back to her adolescent mindset. "I reverted back to that 12-year-old version of me but thought: Either you're going to get triggered by this all the time, or you're going to get to a point where you're okay enough to look past it."
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These days, Ballerini says she's in "a much healthier spot, and I'm much more gentle with how I talk to myself and my body."
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"There are still days where I revert back to being that 12-year-old, and I have to catch myself, and hold myself accountable to the work I've done."
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